16th April 2003, 9:47 PM
Um, OB1, what is truly funny here is that you seem to have decided that because they gave one game a score slightly higher than it deserved you will hate them forever... while IGN does that stuff CONSTANTLY and you laugh it off...
And IGN is almost never funny...
Oh, and what's so bad about Gamespot's layout? I think its good...
And I completely fail to see how any thinking person could prefer IGN's insulting and juvenile stuff to Gamespot's reviews.
As I said in chat to Dark Jaguar, IGN is insulting their audience with their comments (in this review)... (in general, not exact quotes) "its for the hardcore"... "Yes, I actually will buy this game for some reason"... "only hardcore, oldschool gamers will like this. Most people will hate it".
I call that INSULTING THE AUDIENCE. It is NOT respecting the intelligence of the reader. It says "you have no hope of liking this game. Here, here's a dumb joke to make you happy". And that is NOT something I want to be told in a review. I like it when the reviewer respects my intelligence and IGN doesn't even begin to do that.
Evidently you fall into the trap they want you to -- "hey, I'm hardcore! I'm in the minority! I can handle this! HARDCORE! YEAH!"
(ripping off DJ's comment with that last part since he said he won't comment in the thread)
Sorry if I prefer my reviews to try to actually be a good explanation of the details of the good and bad points of a game in a respectful manner.
And IGN is almost never funny...
Oh, and what's so bad about Gamespot's layout? I think its good...
And I completely fail to see how any thinking person could prefer IGN's insulting and juvenile stuff to Gamespot's reviews.
As I said in chat to Dark Jaguar, IGN is insulting their audience with their comments (in this review)... (in general, not exact quotes) "its for the hardcore"... "Yes, I actually will buy this game for some reason"... "only hardcore, oldschool gamers will like this. Most people will hate it".
I call that INSULTING THE AUDIENCE. It is NOT respecting the intelligence of the reader. It says "you have no hope of liking this game. Here, here's a dumb joke to make you happy". And that is NOT something I want to be told in a review. I like it when the reviewer respects my intelligence and IGN doesn't even begin to do that.
Evidently you fall into the trap they want you to -- "hey, I'm hardcore! I'm in the minority! I can handle this! HARDCORE! YEAH!"
(ripping off DJ's comment with that last part since he said he won't comment in the thread)
Sorry if I prefer my reviews to try to actually be a good explanation of the details of the good and bad points of a game in a respectful manner.